FIRM ACTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 342, 1 October 1932, Page 2

FIRM ACTION

REDS DEPORTED AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT RIDDING COUNTRY OF UNDESIRABLES. FURTHERS STEPS MOOTED. , • ... Canberra, Satprdhy. The Goyernment is steadily fulfill- ; ing,.its. election .proniise to rid _Aus- ' tralia of undesirables. The signing of deportation orders has become almost a weekly routine for Mr. .Parkhill, who,.--as Minister, for the Interior,, administers the Act. The latest official figure is 109, but the number of people sent away since Mr. Lyons came into power now exceeds that figure. A large proportion comprisefe "Reds," but the list also includes white slave and drug traffickers, other eriminals, immigrants who threaten to become a liability on the State, and Orientals and other foreigners who have entered Australia illegally. Most of the "Reds" so far deported are srnall f ry, but the High Court of the Supreme Court will have an . oppnrtunity of deciding whether certain organisations are illegal associations within the meaning of the Crimes Act, and where sucb declarations are given by the Court any non-Australian native who is a member of such an association may be deported on an order from the A.ttorneyJGeneral This process, for which the preliminaries are in train, will involve wellknown ringleaders and prominent agitators. It is then that the deportations will assume a real signifieance.